Paulo Pimenta

Paulo Roberto Severo Pimenta (born 19 March 1965) is a Brazilian journalist, agricultural technician, and politician, who was the Chief Minister of Brazil's Secretariat of Social Communication from September 10, 2024 to January 7, 2025 and previously from January 1, 2023 to May 15, 2024. He has been a member of the Workers' Party (PT) since 1985.

During the course of his political career, he was a councilman for the PT in his hometown of Santa Maria, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and was elected state deputy in 1998. In 2000, he was elected vice-mayor of Santa Maria, with Valdeci Oliveira as mayor. Since 2003, he has been a federal deputy from the state of Rio Grande do Sul. In 2008, he ran to be the mayor of Santa Maria but came in second place. In 2010, he was the most voted for candidate from the PT in Rio Grande do Sul, with 153,172 votes. In 2014, he was reelected as a federal deputy with the most votes for a PT candidate, with 140,868 votes, becoming the 6th most voted federal deputy in Rio Grande do Sul. Provided by Wikipedia